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Content Management

Alfresco Software, Inc., a provider of open source enterprise content management (ECM), announced the availability of an integrated Red Hat-Alfresco Team Collaboration Solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) requiring collaboration, simplified information sharing and content management.

Language Weaver, a software company developing enterprise software for the automated translation of human languages, and across Systems GmbH, a provider of corporate translation management systems, are developing a specially-priced, bundled software package that will support German/English translation of documents in the industrial manufacturing domain.

The XML dialect of choice is the new DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture), developed originally by IBM and now an OASIS standard. Of the original twelve XML editors, eight now do DITA, and one new WYSIWYG XML authoring tool has entered the market that does only DITA.

FatWire Software, a web content management provider, has announced the launch of FatWire TeamUp, a new solution that offers enterprise 2.0 collaboration capabilities including simple-to-use wikis, blogs, and social tagging, plus an advanced content integration platform.

Day Software announced that Oracle now offers Day's JCR/JSR 170-compliant connectors to facilitate integration between Oracle WebCenter and leading third-party content repositories, such as EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint.

Organizations are forced to shoulder all the significant risk associated with integration if they want to implement collaborative working practices, despite a wealth of software vendors offering collaboration software solutions, according to a new report from IT analyst firm Macehiter Ward-Dutton (MWD), an IT advisory firm.

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. has formed the Content Management System (CMS) Alliance Program, an ecosystem of CMS providers and system integrators with the objective of simplifying global content management and publishing.

AIT AG and across Systems GmbH have entered into a strategic partnership in an attempt to enable the consistent and cost-efficient translation of software interfaces with manuals and help texts, ensuring they refer to the same content.

Apex CoVantage, a knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, announced the launch of its new Professional Services Group intended to support organizations in achieving the maximum value and return on investment from the information critical to their enterprise.

MetaCommunications, Inc., a software developer of cross-platform process management and productivity solutions for the graphic arts industry, announced it is shipping a new Windows-based version of its Digital Storage Manager 2.5 software.

Nortel and IBM announced plans to offer a software-based foundation that is intended to bring together business applications and processes with the latest unified communications and collaboration tools such as click-to-connect, presence, location, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

As the photo-sharing site MyPhotoAlbum began to grow--with its storage needs along with it--the company realized that its ISP was no longer able to keep up with the site's demand. The company decided to move to an in-house storage system from ONStor to increase scalability and to regain a sense of control.

While it might seem that choosing the 100 companies that matter most in the econtent industry is our biggest challenge in this issue, I find the more difficult (and fun) aspect of participating in the selection of the annual EContent 100 list is figuring out what the correct categories are and which companies go in each. As we revise the taxonomy of econtent companies, each year we seem to have more discussions about what company goes into what category than we do about the merits of individual companies.

For the past three years, my annual wrap-up of content management systems has mostly counted the exploding number of branded products, for sale and open source, on the world market—now nearing 3,000. This year, I want to focus on a handful that are doing things so well that they show the way to the future for all the others.

What a difference a year makes. Since my column in last year’s EC100 issue, content applications of all types have been showing their 2.0 stripes, increasingly blurring the boundaries between web and print, and where their content resides. As “Web 2.0” has become part of our vocabulary, Content 2.0 parallels are blurring web-based and non-web-based content.

I've just returned from representing EContent at the second Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit in London. This turned out to be an excellent conference in every respect. It was especially notable for the balance of strategic insight and tactical best practices in the areas of search, portals, collaboration, and content management.

A closer look at Sitecore, a content management system and portal software solutions-provider that has built a strong presence in the U.S., the U.K., and Scandinavia in its more than five years in business.

A closer look at Liferay, which started as a website project for founder Brian Chan's church and has turned into a leading open source enterprise portal framework for integrated web publishing and content management.